I have been contacted by Porthcawl Civic Trust Society about their concerns over the plans for Sandy Bay and Griffin Park.
The arguments against having 900 new homes at Sandy Bay and the adjacent fairground site have already been well documented. But I want to focus on a specific proposal in BCBC’s regeneration plans and that’s what’s happening to Griffin Park.
This park is pivotal to the delivery of the whole scheme as it is proposed to drive a new access road into the development through part of the park taking out both of the tennis courts and also one of the bowling greens.
But the courts are used by a group of young tennis players who gather there regularly for tennis coaching. Although Griffin Park will end up bigger in the end, with extra land added in from the fairground and monster park, It is not clear if alternative tennis courts will be provided on this additional land or who would pay to provide them.
I am backing the Civic Trust and the tennis club in opposing this part of the plan unless there is a clear commitment to provide alternative tennis courts before the current ones are lost.